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...them again in each of the past three years; this year's reduction came to $100 million. New Jersey in just six months has reduced income taxes 15%, half of what once seemed a pie-in-the-sky promise by new Governor Christine Todd Whitman to enact a 30% slash over three years. The reductions have made Whitman not only highly popular locally but also a rising star in national Republican circles...
...harsh death-penalty provisions, nevertheless agreed to help return the bill to the House floor for further debate. At week's end members of both parties were discussing a deal that would create a sexual-predator task force, make minor revisions in the measure's assault-weapons ban, and slash more than 10% of the bill's $33 billion funding...
...Canadian government averted a possible trade war with the U.S. this week by agreeing to slash annual wheat exports to 1.5 million metric tons. The wheat pact fulfilled Clinton's pre-NAFTA promises to grain-growing states that he would challenge alleged Canadian subsidies of the industry...
...Philip Morris chairman who tried unsuccessfully to separate the company's food and cigarette divisions announced his resignation. Michael Miles, a nonsmoker and the first company head from outside the tobacco industry, was also responsible for last year's controversial decision to slash the price of Marlboro cigarettes...
...jeremiads are filled with two-dollar words that actually add up. "We are going over a Niagara of psychobabble in a barrel full of holes," he complains. "We have become a country of ragged recidivists dedicated to the proposition that all parents are created equally bad and the progeny-slash- progenitor dynamic should be the landfill for all our personal shortcomings...